Sr. Director of Cloud Engineering

Johnson Controls develops technologies that help customers create safer, smarter, and more connected environments. Our Security Solutions portfolio brings together access control, video management, cameras, and cloud services to help customers protect people, facilities, and assets.

As we advance our cloud and AI capabilities, we are seeking a senior engineering leader to shape the technical strategy and foundations of our next-generation security solutions, including Highspan and the evolution of our established product portfolio.

The Sr. Director of Cloud Engineering will lead cloud engineering and enterprise architecture across Johnson Controls’ Security organization. This role combines deep technical expertise with organizational leadership, managing engineering teams and owning delivery of cloud platforms, shared services, and AI-enabled capabilities that support multiple product lines.

You will define the cloud and AI technical strategy, establish architecture standards, and translate business priorities into executable engineering plans. Working with product-line engineering leaders and Product Management, you will align shared technology investments with product roadmaps, resolve cross-team dependencies, and deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

This position requires a leader who can move between strategic decisions and detailed technical problem-solving, build strong teams, and maintain accountability for delivery, quality, and engineering effectiveness.

• Define and execute the cloud engineering and enterprise architecture strategy across Security, aligning technology investments with business priorities and product roadmaps.

• Establish a shared technical direction spanning cloud services, AI integration, data, APIs, identity, and connectivity between devices, on-premises systems, and cloud platforms.

• Identify opportunities to consolidate overlapping capabilities, reduce duplication, and accelerate delivery through reusable platforms and services.

• Partner with product-line leaders to establish clear ownership, prioritize shared engineering investments, and balance immediate delivery needs with long-term modernization.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide investment decisions based on customer value, technical feasibility, cybersecurity, and total cost of ownership.

• Lead distributed engineering teams responsible for cloud platforms globally and shared capabilities serving multiple product lines.

• Establish clear responsibilities, decision authority, and collaboration practices across engineering managers, architects, and technical teams.

• Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent, strengthen leadership capability, and build succession readiness.

• Manage staffing, capacity planning, engineering budgets, and external resources for the functions within the role’s scope.

• Build a culture of customer focus, technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for the cloud and shared engineering capabilities within the organization’s remit.

• Translate strategic priorities into achievable plans with clear scope, milestones, resource commitments, and acceptance criteria.

• Partner with Program Management and product-line engineering leaders to coordinate releases, manage dependencies, and resolve execution risks.

• Establish measures of delivery predictability, release quality, service reliability, engineering productivity, and operating cost.

• Drive improvements in development, testing, deployment, and release practices through automation, CI/CD,…